[IO Islamic 265] آشوب نامۀ هندوستان

Âshûbnâma-i-Hindûstân

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1579 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 265 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1579

Âshûbnâma-i-Hindûstân (آشوب نامۀ هندوستان).

Âshûbnâma-i-Hindûstân, or simply Âshûb-i-Hindûstân, a historical mathnawî from the time of the civil wars under Shâhjahân and the struggle of his sons for the empire, A.H. 1067-1069 (A.D. 1657-1659), by an eye-witness of all the events related in this poem, Bihishtî, who was a panegyrist of Sulṭân Murâdbakhsh, and completed this mathnawî before the death of his patron, which took place in A.H. 1071 (A.D. 1660, 1661). Beginning:

كلام سخن سنج را ابتدا – بنام خدايست و نام خدا

Another complete copy of the same is described in Rieu ii. pp. 689 and 690, an incomplete one in No. 1124 of the Bodleian Cat.

Some hemistichs are missing on fol. 93a.

Dated the last of Rajab, A.H. 1182 (A.D. 1768, Dec. 10)

No. 265, ff. 93, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Shikasta; size, 8¾ in. by 5½ in.